They all failed to see the value of the 10 minute per block
adjustment of difficculty that makes/made impossible 
for any ¨power¨ to steal all the value as they implied.

Most fail to see that Bitcoin is tied to time in a very powerful 
yet subtle way and thus they think/thought of it as another
´bitgold´ proposal.

Now it is more understood but still the rethoric is leading 
to accumulate instead of using it daily and that is why full
adoption is taking longer.

It will happen, eventually, most of us, today, will need to 
give up for it to flourish.  Next generations will laugh at us
for having been so naive about it.